Breaches of infection control protocol may have contributed to three patients who were infected with MRSA after receiving epidural shots at a West Virginia outpatient pain clinic, according to a study ...

The more often a hospital can check its newborns for deadly MRSA germs, the more likely it will be that they are contained, according to a new study. However, researchers noted that there are ...

Implementing a program to reduce methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus was more effective when all hospitals in a region took part compared with implementation at an individual hospital, ...

During the COVID pandemic, methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) infections in acute care hospitals rose steeply, despite a decrease of infections before the pandemic, the Society for ...

Expert Rev Anti Infect Ther. 2013;11(5):499-509. Limiting unnecessary, empiric, broad-spectrum antibiotic therapy is universally thought to be an effective tool for reducing HAIs and limiting ...

In the past eight years, the risk of MRSA, or methycillin-resistant staphylococcus aurea, infections in hospital intensive care units has declined, researchers at the Centers for Disease Control and ...

Mupirocin twice daily to each nostril for the 5 days before the day of surgery Two applications of nasal iodophor (at least 5%) to each nostril within 2 hours before surgery Facilities can choose to ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Fewer MRSA health care-associated infections were reported when facilities practiced active surveillance and ...

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), between 2019 and 2023, there was a 460% increase in drug-resistant bacteria.

A single patient infected with the increasingly common "superbug" known as MRSA can cost a hospital $60,000, U.S. researchers reported Tuesday. Their study of seven hospitals and health facilities ...